Means for marking wound strip material



w. STRITTMATTER. MEANS FOR MARKING WOUND STRIP MATERIAL.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19, 1921.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

/NVENTOR WITNESS A TTOH/VEY ATE iwILLIAM srRITTMA'rrnR, or non'rn BERGEN; NEW JERSEY-i MEANS FOR MAR IN wounn s'rnir MATERIAL.

Application filed February 19, 1921; Serial n. 446,496.

To all, whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, WILLIAM S'rnrr'r- MATTER, a citizen ofthe United States, residing. at town. of. North Bergen, in the county of Hudson and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means, for Marking Wound Strip -Material, of which the following is a specification. o e The Object of this invention is to provide means whereby theyardage may be indicated by marking in some way, as'by printing, on. a strip as it is woundup on a suit able. core. the same being so constructed as to be simple in form; reliable in operation and adapted tov permit the core, when a fully 1 wound package of the strip material has been formed,-to.be removedrfrom the means for rotating itand a fresh one applied; Such a means as my'invention contemplates is of great Value; in blocking 'ribbon and the like,

where usually paper is wound up with the ribbon and both the manufacturer and the dealer require to. know the. number of yards that a package contains. When my apparatus is used for such a purpose the paper strip affords the elementwhereon the marking is done. In the drawing; illustrating one embodiment of my invention by way of example,

Figure 1 is a rear elevation; and... E Fig. 2 a sectional View on line 2+2, Fig.1. On a base a, whichmay be the top. of. a table or bench, is arranged asupportb affording bearings for the rotary shaft go of a face-plate (Z, the shaft being equipped with a pulley 0 adapted to bedriven by. a belt (not shown) the support also carries; alined with the shaft and adjustable toward and from thesa-m'e by means of the screw, f, a

' spindle. g on which. is journaled the faceplate h. z is the block adapted to be--gripped between the face-plates and to be rotated from face-plate (i when shaft 0 is driven; on this block as-a core thematerial, to be wound-up, including a ribbon-or thelike A and a paper strip B, is wound. The foregoing, constitute the usual elements of a ribbon blocking apparatus: I

Support, Z2 includes a post having a f ecification (if Letters Patent.

V ery of the ratchet wheel.

attached to: arm-Z so as .to. be-in the pathof Patented Aug, 9, 1e21,

bracket is in which is pivo'ted an arm- Z and also havinga; bracket m in which is journaled a pulley a over which extends'a flexible connection '0 which extends from "the arm 1 down through a. hole in the base a to a treadle padapted to be depressed by the foot of the attendant, the arm beingnormally urged toward theaxi of rotation of the block i by 'the weight ofnitself and the' partsit carries.- 1 J v In arm] is journaled afriction-wheelor sand-wheel p';, the same; having? a sanded or otherwise roughened orgripping periph ery which when it-bears on the material belng wound on the rotated block causes said wheel to rotate in its bearings. Onan arbor g journaled in the wheelnear its periphery and parallel with its axis of rotation are fixed a ratchet-wheel mthe' samebeing at one side of the wheel, and 1a markers, the latter. being in the present casea wheel with serial type, as 1, 2, 3, etc. arranged on'and with one of its indices in'the radial line of wheel '39 which coincides. with the axis-of rotation of the marker; and facing outwardly,- by: a spring pawl or attached, to wheel p1. and engaging the toothedperiph- The marker being in the present instance a printing device means is provided for inkingits type automatically, forwhichpur pose v is an inking roller mounted in bracketvw attached to the arm l inposition tobe, wiped by that one of the type,- as it is carried past the roller, which happens thenv to" face peripherallyoutward I of wheel'p. V r

For causingstep-by-step"rotation of the presented to the materialjbeingi -wi0und,iI provide a fixed pawl or lug'w which may be that portion ofthe toothed periphery of the marker, so that its type will be successively ratchet wheel r-ywhich happens to ibe oout- V ward with. reference tog-wheel p. when the r r i ratchet whee-lpasses said lug and so, byent marker with the wheel 12 being opposite one a edge portion of-the paper strip, which is, as usual, exposed by the ribbon. On every revolution of the wheel 2) that one of the type or indices of the marker which 'proto trudes through slot 2? bears 'on the paper strip and leaves an imprint thereon and thereupon the marker is turned a partrevolution in the wheel 79' so as to bring the next type or index into protruding relation at the slot for the next revolution, this lat ter type or index then receiving ink from the roller 0. The markings produced in or on the material being wound will be spaced equal distances apart, the intervals being equivalent in length to the circumference of the wheel 19'. When a complete wound package has been formed the attendant, by depressing treadle p,withdraws the marking mechanism clear of the package, arm Z swinging back on its pivot, removes the filled block and inserts between the faceplates an empty one; then, having started the winding up of another package, the treadle is released and the marking mechanism returned to its normal position.

As the wheel p by its tendency to retard the ribbon might in the case of wide ribbon of a flimsy texture cause backward displacement of one edge ofthe ribbon relatively to the other I may in such cases apply to the spindle t, which tlIOI'dS Ul axial support for the wheel p, a supplemental friction wheel '2. So far as I am aware it is new in the art of marking on a roll of strip material as the roll is being formed, and therefore the mass thereof gradually increases in 'dil ameter, to provide mechanism for marking the material at i predetermined intervals lengthwise thereof which is normally urged toward but is movable away from the axis of the mass and includes a rotary prime mover (as wheel 0) arranged to bearperipherally thereof on the periphery of said mass and be rotated by the rotating'already wound mass of material. Since the marking is in accordance with the ultimate object to be such as to indicate at intervals on the material the number of yards wound up the marking mechanism in the best form also includes a marker having serial indices and movable in the prime mover to present its indices one after another outwardly at the periphery of said prime mover, as by being a rotary member, as s,-on the periphery of which the serial indices are arranged; and means is further providedin the best form for alsolmoving the marker 3 automatically at intervals as r-0a, so as to present its indicesprogressively tothe material. i H

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire, to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In combination, means to wlnd up strip material on a definite axis and mechanism, normally urged toward but movable away from said axis, for marking the material at predetermined intervals lengthwise thereof including a rotary prime mover arranged to bear peripherally thereof on the periphery of and be rotated by the rotating already-wound mass of material.

a 2. In combination,'means to wind up strip material on a definiteaxis and mechanism, normally urged toward but movable away from said axis, for marking the material at predetermined intervals lengthwise thereof including a rotary prime mover arranged to bear peripherally thereof on the periphery of and berotated by the rotating already-wound-mass of material and a marker having serial marking indices and movable in the prime moverto present said indices one after another outwardly at the periphery of the prime mover and in position to engage said mass.

3.-In combination, means to'Wind up strip material'on 'a' definiteaxis and mecha 1 periphery of andbe rotated by'the rotating already-wound 'mass of "material, a marker having serial marking indices and movable in the prime mover to present said indices one-'after'another outwardly at the periphery of theprimemover and in position to engage saidmass, and means to move the markeristep by step, once for each revolution'ofthe primemover.

ebInro'mbinati'on, means to wind up strip material on a definite axis and mechanism, normally urged toward but movable away froimsaid axis, formarking the materialat predetermined intervals lengthwise thereof includinga rotary prime moverarranged to bear peripherally thereof on the peripheryof and be rotated by the rotating already-wound mass of material and a rotary marker arranged .to engage at its periphery on the periphery of said mass and away from said axis, for marking the material at predetermined intervals lengthwise thereof including a marker having serial markingindices and movable in said mechanism to present said indices one after another to the already-Wound mass of material peripherally thereof, and a prime mover arranged-to bear peripherally there rial and adapted to move the marker at each revolution of said prime mover into marking engagement with said mass.

In testlmony whereof'I aflix my signature.

WILLIAM STRITTMA'TTER. 

